8.1 Staking Tiers and Capabilities

Staking $MAICRO unlocks progressively deeper capabilities in the Strategy Builder. Tiers are tied to genuine capability expansion, not arbitrary feature paywalls. The core product is accessible without staking. Deeper configuration depth and the ATA allocation layer require skin in the game.

Tier	Stake Required	Vault Fee Rebate	Base APY (fee-driven)	Capabilities Unlocked
Analyst	10,000+ $MAICRO	0.020%	~5%	Governance vote access
Trader	50,000+ $MAICRO	0.018%	~10%	Priority vault execution
Portfolio Manager	100,000+ $MAICRO	0.016%	~15%	Exclusive agent pool access
Fund Manager	200,000+ $MAICRO	0.013%	~20%	Higher ATA allocations
CIO	500,000+ $MAICRO	0.010%	~25%	First access to new agents, council seat

Lockup Multipliers

Time-locked staking earns bonus APY on top of the base tier rate:

Lockup Duration	APY Multiplier
30 days	1.0x (no bonus)
90 days	1.2x
180 days	1.4x

Staker Yield Formula

The staker APY is fee-driven, not inflationary. It derives entirely from platform trading activity:

Staker_APY = (Platform_Fee_Revenue × Buyback_Rate × Staker_Share) / Total_Staked_Value

Where:

• Platform_Fee_Revenue = aggregate of all trading fees and vault performance fees generated across deployed STAs

• Buyback_Rate = 0.60 (60% of the 0.7% trading fee flows to buybacks)

• Staker_Share = 0.25 (25% of bought-back tokens are distributed to stakers; 75% are permanently burned)

• Total_Staked_Value = current market value of all $MAICRO in staking contracts

As platform TVL and deployed STA volume grow, fee revenue grows proportionally, increasing staker yield without any new token issuance.